think-iceberg-modellisted

<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # Iceberg Model The default response to a problem is to react to the visible **event**. The iceberg model resists that by moving the problem down four levels, from the tip toward the mass under the water: the **event** (what just happened), the **pattern** (what has been happening over time), the **structures** (the policies, incentives, resource flows, and feedback loops that generate the pattern), and the **mental models** (the beliefs and assumptions that hold those structures in place). Descending past the event is the work, because structure and mindset are where higher-leverage interventions sit. Each level is paired with the intervention it implies: event-level fixes are reactive and low-leverage, structure- and model-level fixes are higher-leverage and slower. The output is an **iceberg**, not a discussion. ## When to Use - A problem keeps recurring despite repeated event-level fixes, hinting at a structural cause. - A symptom is being treated as a one-off when it is the latest instance of a pattern. - The real question is "why does this keep happening, and where do we actually intervene?" - There is appetite to consider structural or mindset interventions, not only quick reactive fixes. ## When NOT to Use - **A simple, linear, single-cause problem.** One event, one obvious cause, a known fix. Forcing four levels manufactures false depth; say it is a